Year 5 blog - w/b 3rd March
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 11:31am
What an exciting week we have had in Year 5! We were very impressed with the children's outfits yesterday for World Book Day. Some of the words we had were 'hibernation', 'garish', 'chaotic' and 'retro' just to name a few. To celebrate WBD, we voted on our favourite book to recommend to the children in our link school, St Lwanga in Kenya. Year 5 voted for Paddington and Diary of a Wimpy Kid so Mrs Forrester will gather the votes from the other classes and decide which books we will send to the children of St Lwanga to read. Our class read the Little People, Big Dreams book about Pele, the Brazilian footballer. The children were very interested to learn not only about his achievements on the football pitch, but also what he did to help others.
In Maths we have started our unit on decimals. We have been learning to understand what a tenth, hundredth and thousandth are and how to convert between fractions and decimals.
In English we have been exploring our example text, The Promise, looking at new vocabulary and analysing the features of the text. For example, we noticed that the writer used adverbials for cohesion, parenthesis to add extra details, rhetorical questions and adverbs of possiblility. Next week, we will use these to create a 'writer's toolkit' to help us when we plan and write our own stories.
In RE, following on from our lesson last week about what it means to be victorious, we looked at the Easter story and how it showed Jesus' death as victorious. The children worked in groups to read from the Bible and look for words and phrases which showed that Jesus was victorious.
In geography we looked at the human impact on China's physical geography. We were very interested to learn how Mount Everest had become such a tourist attraction with thousands of people visiting each year. Although there were positives to this as it helped the community to prosper, there were also downsides such as the rubbish people left behind. We also learnt about desertification where areas of grassland are turning to desert due to overfarming.
In computing, we are learning about stop motion animation. Last week the children made animation toys that would have been popular in the Victorian era including the zoetrope and flipbooks - whilst making these was relatively simple, understanding that each image needs to be very very slightly different to the previous was a little more tricky. This week, we have been using plastecine and an app called Stop Motion that essentially does the same as the flipbook, except this time the children were required to photo each frame to provide the piece of animation - around 24 frames for a single second of animation.
Next week we have Cheshire Fire and Rescue coming in on Tuesday afternoon to deliver 'Escape to Safety' teaching the children what to do in the event of a fire.
